Matthew Poole Commentary - 2 Samuel 16:22 - 16:22

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Matthew Poole Commentary - 2 Samuel 16:22 - 16:22


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Upon the top of the house, to wit, of the king’s palace, the very place from whence David had spied and gazed upon Bath-sheba, 2Sa_11:2. So that his sin was legible in the very place of his punishment.



Unto his father’s concubines, i.e. to one or some of them; and by so doing did further make claim to the kingdom as his own; and, as it were, take possession of it; it being usual in the eastern countries to account the wives and concubines of the late king to belong of right to the successor: See Poole on 2Sa_12:8.



In the sight of all Israel; who saw him go into the tent, and thence concluded that he lay with them, as he had designed to do.